While cryptocurrencies stole the spotlight in 2017, a clutch of companies were calmly working behind the scenes to leisurely bring the financial services establishment to its knees. It may turn out that these startup entrants of the last several years will prove to be the more relevant disruptors. Read More

Latin America’s Groupon Mafia

The founders of PayPal and its employees have produced many very successful companies over the years. Often referred to as the “PayPal Mafia” because they’ve had such an influence on the startup ecosystem, this serial entrepreneur success story is reminiscent of a similar phenomenon taking place in Latin America. The story starts with another U.S. company, Groupon. Read More

Facebook has a 100-person engineering team that helps advertisers build implements and infrastructure

Facebook says that one of its success stories in latest years involves a relatively petite group of engineers. Originally it was just one engineer, Vastal Mehta, who serves as Facebook’s director of solutions engineering and now leads a team of more than 100 people that works with advertisers to build the technology and infrastructure needed to run more effective campaigns on Facebook. Read More

Communications are the bedrock of emergency response and management. However, those communications can be challenging when quickly evolving situations cross numerous jurisdictions. Today, AT&amp,T announced that all 50 states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia have officially signed on to FirstNet, a government program operated by AT&amp,T to provide universal emergency response&hellip, Read More

Amazon did a lot of funky stuff this year and it’s paying off

Holy hell, it’s been a year for Amazon. Jeff Bezos’ former-online-bookstore dumped $13.7 billion to buy a bunch of grocery stores, that speaker you talk to in your living room that Amazon makes is truly popular and a bunch of server farms Amazon runs generate more than $Ten billion in revenue annually. Read More

iFixit has never been particularly fond of Apple’s repair policies. The company’s gadgets regularly rack up poor repairability scores on the site. The site’s taking another jab at the tech giant today, ripping off the price of its battery replacement kits to $29 —, matching the cost of out-of-warranty battery replacements being suggested up as consolation for its iPhone&hellip, Read More